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Tomes, Robert 1817-1882

Physician; born in New York City, March 27, 1817; graduated at Washington (now Trinity) College in 1835; studied medicine in Philadelphia and later at the University of Edinburgh; returned to the United States and practised in New York for a few years, and was then appointed surgeon on a vessel for the Pacific Mail Steamboat Company, and made trips between Panama and San Francisco. He was United States consul at Rheims, France, in 1865-67. He contributed largely to journals and magazines; and was author of Panama in 1855; The American in Japan; The battles of America by sea and land; The War with the South: a history of the Great American rebellion, etc. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1882.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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